row

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A line of people or things side by side.

   We sat in the front row at the cinema.

2. 2
   noun

   A number of times happening one after another without a break.

   They won the championship three years in a row.

3. 3
   verb

   To move a boat through water using oars.

   They rowed across the lake at sunrise.

4. 4
   verb

   To carry someone or something in a boat moved by oars.

   The guide rowed us out to the small island.

From Middle English rowen (“to row”), from Old English rōwan (“to row”), from Proto-Germanic *rōaną (“to row”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to row”). Compare West Frisian roeie, Dutch roeien, Danish ro. More at rudder. Related to Russia.

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